On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 02:31:40PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:41:23PM +0200, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> > During probe every time driver gets resource it should usually check for
> > error
> > printk some message if it is not -EPROBE_DEFER and return the error. This
> > pattern is simple but requires adding few lines after any resource
> > acquisition
> > code, as a result it is often omited or implemented only partially.
> > probe_err helps to replace such code sequences with simple call, so code:
> > if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > dev_err(dev, ...);
> > return err;
> > becomes:
> > return probe_err(dev, err, ...);
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.ha...@samsung.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javi...@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevche...@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/base/core.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > include/linux/device.h | 3 +++
> > 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> > index 67d39a90b45c..ee9da66bff1b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> > @@ -3953,6 +3953,45 @@ define_dev_printk_level(_dev_info, KERN_INFO);
> >
> > #endif
> >
> > +/**
> > + * probe_err - probe error check and log helper
> > + * @dev: the pointer to the struct device
> > + * @err: error value to test
> > + * @fmt: printf-style format string
> > + * @...: arguments as specified in the format string
> > + *
> > + * This helper implements common pattern present in probe functions for
> > error
> > + * checking: print message if the error is not -EPROBE_DEFER and propagate
> > it.
> > + * It replaces code sequence:
> > + * if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > + * dev_err(dev, ...);
> > + * return err;
> > + * with
> > + * return probe_err(dev, err, ...);
> > + *
> > + * Returns @err.
> > + *
> > + */
> > +int probe_err(const struct device *dev, int err, const char *fmt, ...)
> > +{
> > + struct va_format vaf;
> > + va_list args;
> > +
> > + if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > + return err;
> > +
> > + va_start(args, fmt);
> > + vaf.fmt = fmt;
> > + vaf.va = &args;
> > +
> > + dev_err(dev, "error %d: %pV", err, &vaf);
> > +
> > + va_end(args);
> > +
> > + return err;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(probe_err);
>
> Please be specific in global symbols, how about "driver_probe_error()"?
Or dev_err_probe() to match the existing dev_* functions ?
> And merge the other patch into this one, as Raphael said, otherwise this
> just looks odd to add something and then fix it up later.
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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